Highlights Of A Week That Was

It was one of those bitterly cold days and I had a particularly long day. I thanked God for the kind family who dropped me off at home; it could've been a really shitty day if I was walking home in that miserable cold. I checked if my flatmate was home - Nope. So I went next door (coz she lives there too!) to check if she was in. Nope. I talk to the guys there for a while and head back home coz I was getting hungry and I needed to unwind. And what do you know? I was locked outside of home. I, how typical can a long day get?, forgot my house keys.

I could've smashed our calling bell-button-thing, but my landlady was too busy watching the TV and listening to the radio all at the same time. I called her and she thought the phone call was for me and pottered downstairs calling out my name. She then heard me telling her it was me on the phone with her and she assumed I had taken the call and switched off her cordless phone. I simply walked over to the guys' and relaxed there instead. Nothing like some vodka with orange juice and a bunch of tired guys to end the day with.

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I met this guy online. How cheesy can it get? Ugh. I think I'm suffocating myself with the painfully slow, clichéd means of communication both of us are using. I quit this MSN nonsense and give him my mobile number. Either he's a true dudhead or not interested in 'that' kinda thing - he hasn't called as yet. If he's not interested, then why's he still emailing me and chatting up with me? Maybe he's got performance anxiety.

Anyway, I digress. Talk about coincidences, yeah? Think of me. I book my flight tickets to go to India and happen to tell him. He's flying on the same day, same flight, same destination as I am. Basically, I'm stuck with this 'performance anxiety' chap for 9 hours on the flight. Or more.

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I've not seen my flatmate since a while. She's been over at her boyfriend's (a.ka. next door, the guys'). I went over last night to see what's up on her end of the world. It's been a long time and I might've lost my communication skills in this interim. It's cold, you see. The winter makes every explanation plausible! I walk in and watch her cook for a while. When she sees me finally, all I can manage to blurt out is - 'Are you avoiding me?'

She's casually tossing some food, looking into some other dish and says, 'I'm not avoiding you. You're too tiny to find.'

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It was my first time attending this really tough class. In the sense, the module is tough and I don't like anything that involves the black and white combination of logic, computers and numbers. After a rather tedious lecture, the lecturer asked us to launch into our practical. I clicked on the 'tlearn' icon and sat staring at the screen for a while. Okay, this can't be that hard. Let's see. I should click, perhaps on -

'Oh, hello there, prof. I'm sorry, but I'm struggling with this tlearn. I'm somewhat stupid when it comes to it..'

'Yes, I noticed that.'

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I tell my mother that I'm coming home for the Easter hols. She laughs and says that she knew it. I'm glad, she sounds cute and happy.

I tell my father I'm coming home for the Easter hols. He sighs and says, 'Not again'.

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I've been working out the past week. Although I've come to the common consensus that all this is baby fat with my friend, I know that the time to look hot is now. I do all sorts of work-outs and some of it involves early morning warm-ups in my room itself. It so happened that this one night I slept with only a t-shirt on. The following morning I stumble out of bed and do my work-out with my eyes closed. After a few minutes I open my eyes coz - heck, I'm cold! The first thing I see is our neighbor's house. The father is looking at me horrified and the teenage boy winks at me.

Way to go.